Dec 2017

23rd December Season’s Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year.

2017 was a tough year but over two disputes we successfully defended our negotiating rights, AC3 to AC4 promotions, HPL colleagues demoted to demonstrator grade, and the principle of no compulsory redundancies and we are well placed to resist further attacks on our terms and conditions and the quality of education at Brighton. The solidatrity of colleagues and students was vital to our success and you can read our longer messages of thanks to STUDENTS here, to UNISON here and to UCU colleagues here.

2nd December.

THANK YOU!  On behalf of the UCU Coordinating Committee and UCU colleagues at Brighton, we would like to thank you for the support you have shown for our recent dispute, and for all of the supportive messages that you have sent to us. The importance of this solidarity cannot be over-estimated. It is not easy to take and to maintain industrial action, especially in the face of offensive counter-propaganda.

1st December

Dispute Resolved. Solidarity shown by UCU members in their determination to take strike action in defence of their colleagues has ensured a successful outcome to this dispute – read the Brighton Coordinating committee statement here.